2025 American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the category of Constructive-Reflective Studies
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- ISBN 9781478025108
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jan 2024
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In The Coloniality of the Secular, An Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and coloniality in the Americas. Drawing on the work of Édouard Glissant, Frantz Fanon, AimÉ CÉsaire, Sylvia Wynter, and Enrique Dussel, An maps the intersections of revolutionary non-Western thought with religious ideas to show how decoloniality redefines the sacred as an integral part of its liberation vision. He examines these thinkers’ rejection of colonial religions and interrogates the narrow conception of religion that confines it within colonial power structures. An explores decoloniality’s conception of the sacred in relation to revolutionary violence, gender, creolization, and racial phenomenology, demonstrating its potential for reshaping religious paradigms. Pointing out that the secular has been pivotal to regulating racial hierarchies under colonialism, he advocates for a broader understanding of religion that captures the fundamental ideas that drive decolonial thinking. By examining how decolonial theory incorporates the sacred into its vision of liberation, An invites readers to rethink the transformative power of decoloniality and religion to build a hopeful future.
An Yountae is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at California State University, Northridge. He is coeditor of Beyond Man: Race, Coloniality, and Philosophy of Religion, also published by Duke University Press, and author of The Decolonial Abyss: Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins.
